#Politics

(THREAD) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: In 2008, Trump believed himself to be cutting an eight-figure real estate deal with Vladimir Putin himself—a transaction that netted him tens of millions. This news
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listen i am most absolutely a fujoushi and although me (and other ""problematic"" accs) absolutely do not owe anyone an explanation, I will be very generous and give the children
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Even more fun factoid: Political orientation varies a LOT by specialty. See comment below.https://twitter.com/WeedenKim/status/1347917090892689409 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/upshot/your-surgeon-is-probably-a-republican-your-psychiat
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Over the summer I had a chance to teach a month-long Iyyun Shiur on the topic of the Eglah Arufah, discussing the ritual mandated in a scenario when an anonymous
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Short thread. Q Drop 4545: We the people against the invisible enemy. Read carefully.1. Humanity is good, but, when we let our guard down we allow darkness to infiltrate and
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Okay so I thought it would be cool to map out the postliberal scene. I'm using the term broadly and am not implying we're all some formal organisation. Postliberalism has
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Hope is a double edged sword. We need hope tempered with reality. False hope is just unrealized despair. Personally I find reality, as difficult as it can be sometimes, is
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Listening in. @DavidHarrisAJC is talking a lot about "renewed sovereignty" -- on July 1 -- annexation day.https://twitter.com/AJCGlobal/status/1278358246789730309 "We approach Israel advocacy independently -- we don't ref
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Thread: A 12-year flashback to the first time I ever heard of the Oath Keepers. It happened in 2009 when I was monitoring ‘Patriot’ movement chatter and came across a
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What an intense ride for @KansasDems! Candidates & supporters and after an exhausting 4-yrs for all. We meant to post earlier but it has been hard to find words to
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1/ Last couple of days saw first serious post-war incidents along the new line of contact in #Karabakh conflict zone.No precise information about casualties. Social media posts combined with official
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Two years ago I booked a room at an AirBnB in Ottawa for a week and this guy was staying in another room at the house. At first I didn’t
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ThreadHow dishonest is Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC?THIS dishonest. George Floyd died May 25, 2020.Portland's riots began May 27.Seattle's riots began May 27.Los Angeles's riots began May 27.DHS Rapid Deployment Teams were
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Universities should indeed offer "value for money" - but how do we measure the value of education? Every test that comes from government is crassly econometric. We need to recapture
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Greed?What's there to say about greed?There's something grubby about it.There's something weak & pathetic about it.It's almost servile; a kind of inner grovelling neediness.You make yourself the saddle in which
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What are the key persuasive strategies used by populist nationalists?A mix of advocative (we the people) & conflictive (discredit & blame elites & 'dangerous others' such as the Left, Muslims
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